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...COLUMBUS, OHIO: In a marked switch from his previous conciliatory tone, likely GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole Friday called stubborn delegate-poor contender Pat Buchanan "a commentator, not a candidate," and dismissed Buchanan's accusations that Dole has no new ideas. Buchanan Thursday kept speculation alive that he might start a third-party movement if the Republican party takes a "sharp turn to the left." Dole had kinder words for Steve Forbes, whom he said brought a useful message to the campaign in his flat tax proposal. Forbes withdrew from the race after a dismal performance on Super Tuesday, endorsing...
More than a third of Forbes' current supporters in the poll preferred Dole last November. Many of them cite Forbes' ideas and outsider status for their change of heart. "He's not looking over his shoulder at what somebody thinks about him," says Richard Riley, a retired geologist in Columbus, Ohio, and former Dole supporter. "Forbes energizes me." The next-biggest pool of new support for Forbes is among such people as Warren Snyder, a Suffolk, Virginia, phone-company worker who was undecided last fall. "I'm really against the people in Washington. I think Forbes might be refreshing," says...
...people who believe in a flat earth. The vision I can't seem to get out of my head has Steve Forbes as both Ferdinand and Isabella, smiling his dorky smile under two different powdered wigs while economists from the Brookings Institution demonstrate with the same apple Columbus used that there would be a shortfall in federal revenues of $186 billion a year...
...survived by his wife, the former Emily Robinsonl; his mother, Pearl Campbell and stepfather, Clyde Campbell of Columbia, S.C.; a daughter, Virginia Wilkins of Madison, Conn; two sons, Robinson of Madison, Conn. and Richard of Wayland, Mass.; two sisters, Joan Underwood of Columbia, S.C. and Mary Lynn Musgrove of Columbus, Ohio; a stepbrother, George Campbell of Levonia, Mich.; and five grandchildren...
When Bob Gingrich rotated back to Fort Benning, Georgia, Newt attended Baker High School in nearby Columbus. He quickly earned a reputation as brainy and eccentric. At Baker High, he emceed the school talent show, rattling off a string of corny jokes. The kids started booing. But he stayed cocky. If they didn't like a joke, throw money, he told the audience. He walked off the stage with $19. Newt was voted "Most Intellectual" in his senior class. In the high school yearbook, the quote under his picture read "Specialization may produce success, but greatness is acquired only through...